IBM Projects $7 Billion Cloud Revenue
Back in 2011, IBM projected that cloud services would generate $7 billion in revenue for the company by 2015. This statement came during an interview with IBM’s CFO Mark Loughridge. This year, the company’s path towards this ambitious goal became clearer. This article takes a closer look at how IBM has delved deeper into the [...]
Looking Closer at the Private Cloud
Private cloud or virtualization? Why would you need a private cloud? If you only know the time and resource investment that’s required to transforming your data center into a private cloud, you might not even want to embark on that project. Yet, there are certain organizations that are better served by adopting this new data [...]
US Department of Defense – Strategizing in the Cloud
The 2012 National Defense Authorization Act directed the US Department of Defense (DoD) to transition from private clouds controlled by the Department to public, commercial clouds. The reasoning behind this was that commercial clouds would be able to provide better service at reduced cost to taxpayers. Now, critics are arguing that this was a major [...]
CloudForms: Red Hat’s IaaS Offering
Red Hat has announced its new IaaS offering entitled CloudForms, which complements its PaaS solution, OpenShift. Based on a collection of over 60 open source projects, CloudForms offers users the ability to create hybrid public and private clouds, as well as offering a host of application lifecycle management capabilities. According to Scott Crenshaw, Red Hat’s [...]
Is Cloud Computing More Secure?
Going against the grain, latest news from cloud security experts suggest that the cloud may be more secure than we think. Experts participating in the SecureSydney conference in July 2011 said that cloud computing definitely has the potential to be more secure than traditional computing. Security issues are one of the most significant deterrents to [...]
